More Than 22M Devices Ran Cydia in Last Two Months, iPhone 4 Most Popular

Cydia is the digital-content store that gets installed on your device when you jailbreak it with a tool such as redsn0w, Absinthe, or sn0wbreeze. Cydia is the place that jailbreakers can search for and download third-party applications that Apple would never have allowed in their App Store, such as applications, jailbreak tweaks, themes, and much more.

Lately it has been figured that the jailbreak is "dying out" because of the lack of an untethered jailbreak solution for iOS 6. The iPhone 5, Apple’s latest iPhone, remains unjailbroken to this day, and Apple are expected to announce iOS 7 this summer. Regardless, iOS hackers pod2g and planetbeing remain diligent in their work, having made important progress along the way.

According to a recent report from Techcrunch, Saurik (Jay Freeman) reveals that based on data he has obtained over the past couple of months, Cydia has been used on 22,780,029 iOS devices, spanning from iPhones to iPod touches to iPads, and running all kinds of different iOS versions. He also notes that in between jailbreak releases, the number of jailbreaks declines until the next jailbreak release, which by then the number of initial jailbreakers always comes out higher than the previous number:

Originally Posted by Jay Freeman

Every time we release jailbreak, we get a massive spike of renewed interest, during which time people furiously are upgrading, jailbreaking, browsing packages, and purchasing products. They are seriously active users; that spike is so large that the rate it falls over time swamps the rate of organic user accumulation, so the overall usage of jailbreaking is always going down.

Additionally, Saurik shows us how jailbreaking compares in popularity among different iOS devices. The iPhone 4 is the most popularly jailbroken device, capturing 34.9% of the jailbreak community, followed by other iPhone models:

It’s not much of a surprise that the iPhone 4 is the most popular iPhone to be jailbroken, considering that the iPhone 4 is so easy to keep jailbroken because of the limera1n bootrom exploit. The iPhone 4S takes second place, at 20.4%. The iPhone 3GS takes third place, composing of 11.9% of the jailbreak community. It's interesting that the iPod touch 4G isn't as popular to jailbreak as the iPhone 4, however many people would jailbreak their iPhones merely for the ability to free themselves from carrier tethering rules and to use FaceTime over their cellular network, features that the iPod touch 4G lacks, so in a way it makes sense.

I mentioned some time ago, that Saurik would have a list of users running Cydia.
For the ill-informed, Jailbreaking is NOT DEAD!
This is a substantial number.
Watch what happens when IOS 6 is jailbroken for the Iphone 5!

P.S. The reason for the difference between the 4 and 4S is due to the fact
that the Iphone 4 was a major upgrade over the 3Gs and it has been out
longer that the 4S.

I mentioned some time ago, that Saurik would have a list of users running Cydia.
For the ill-informed, Jailbreaking is NOT DEAD!
This is a substantial number.
Watch what happens when IOS 6 is jailbroken for the Iphone 5!

P.S. The reason for the difference between the 4 and 4S is due to the fact
that the Iphone 4 was a major upgrade over the 3Gs and it has been out
longer that the 4S.

I mentioned some time ago, that Saurik would have a list of users running Cydia.
For the ill-informed, Jailbreaking is NOT DEAD!
This is a substantial number.
Watch what happens when IOS 6 is jailbroken for the Iphone 5!

P.S. The reason for the difference between the 4 and 4S is due to the fact
that the Iphone 4 was a major upgrade over the 3Gs and it has been out
longer that the 4S.

Or the fact that a bootrom-level exploit was released for the A4 chip.

I still have my 4 jailbroken on my drawer beside the bed. I use it occasionally as a backup iMessage device (BiteSMS installed) and, once I get my nano-to-microSIM adaptor, my backup test phone (T-Mobile).

I don't think many 4S models were jailbroken due to the iOS updates throwing everything out, the difficulty in restoring (when unsigned) or downgrading, lack of actual specs bumps vs 4, and the fact that most of 4S's 'exclusive' features could be backported to a jailbroken 4 and kept people satisfied for a while.

What I want to know is how many 4/3GS/Touch devices are jailbroken on iOS6 as of now. That number would be interesting to see if people are making the effort to run tethered jailbreak all the time.

Once iOS 6 gets untethered jailbroken on newer devices that'll likely change for the better. There's still way too many tweaks that haven't been updated that would work great on an A6 device if properly updated.

So 22 million jailbroken devices. When the next jailbreak comes out lets try to make it 50 million.
I know when the next jailbreak comes out thats the IOS my iPad is staying on FOREVER. It sucks bigtime not being jailbroken.
Well it'll stay on that IOS till the next jailbreak after that but as this one is still taking so long I doubt there will be another. Thats if this IOS is jailbroken in the first place.

I was running tethered for some time but the lack of updates for my favorite themes made it pointless for the effort involved. I seriously doubt I will jailbreak again till the **** ton of paid Cydia apps I have get updated.